TABLE A2.

Frequency Rates of Disabling¹ Illness Receiving Care from a Physician in the Patient's Home, the Physician's Office, or in a Clinic, and of Physicians’ Services, Classified by Diagnosis according to Age, in 1,581,577 White Persons² in Thirty-One Cities of 100,000 Population and over Canvassed in the National Health Survey, 1935–1936

	Physicians’ Cases per 1,000 Persons					Physicians’ Services per 1,000 Persons
Diagnosis3	All Ages	Under 15 Years	15–24	25–64	65 and Over	All Ages	Under 15 Years	15–24	25–64	65 and Over
All Causes	113.9	144.2	79.6	103.2	195.9	850.3	623.9	508.4	927.4	2,149.3
Communicable Diseases	16.2	58.4	5.0	2.7	1.6	66.1	203.6	27.1	23.1	16.6
Tonsillitis	7.8	20.0	6.2	3.7	.58	23.0	50.3	19.3	14.2	2.9
Pneumonia, All Forms	3.8	6.6	1.8	2.8	7.5	38.2	59.1	17.1	31.4	80.3
Other Diseases of the Respiratory System	19.5	24.4	13.2	18.6	26.7	87.9	82.8	56.5	93.9	152.6
Appendicitis	4.4	3.4	8.6	3.8	.72	23.0	14.3	40.8	23.0	4.0
Other Diseases of the Digestive System	5.8	2.5	2.3	7.5	14.0	52.5	10.9	17.4	74.1	134.3
The Puerperal State: Live Births	8.6	.013	15.8	10.8	–	49.3	.088	91.6	62.4	–
Other Puerperal Conditions and Female Genital Diseases	2.9	.088	3.0	4.4	.63	24.6	.91	23.7	37.6	4.7
Cancer	.83	.011	.029	.99	5.4	15.2	.16	.54	19.2	87.3
Rheumatism	3.8	1.0	1.2	4.9	14.0	43.2	10.2	12.1	56.8	151.7
Degenerative Diseases	10.9	2.8	2.5	11.3	66.8	139.7	25.0	24.7	151.6	871.0
Tuberculosis, All Forms	.84	.28	.91	1.1	.64	10.5	2.8	10.7	13.9	10.7
Nervous and Mental Disease	3.3	1.7	2.1	4.1	6.2	36.2	12.2	21.6	47.9	73.0
Orthopedic Impairments	1.7	.76	.73	1.7	7.9	29.4	10.9	11.4	34.6	114.4
Accidents	11.9	8.8	9.7	13.1	20.8	108.3	56.8	81.9	131.3	189.8
All Other Causes	11.8	13.4	6.4	11.7	22.4	103.0	83.8	53.1	112.4	256.1

See footnotes following Table A5.